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            <h2>Conflict 101: A Passive-Aggressive Guide to Annoying Your Coworkers</h2>
            <div><h3>Satire for the everyday office worker.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>100 Followers and Beyond</h2>
            <div><h3>How I met my goal and other tips that will help all of you.</h3></div>
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            <h2>Everyone is Taking a Break from Dating. Here’s Why.</h2>
            <div><h3>Step back for a year to work on yourself.</h3></div>
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            <h2>How To Choose Work That You’re Good at and Makes You Happy</h2>
            <div><h3>How do I find a job that I love, stay excited about and highlights my best skills?</h3></div>
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            <h2>I Want To But I Can’t.</h2>
            <div><h3>How you can learn to say ‘No’ with confidence</h3></div>
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    </div><h1 id="08a9">Lowest earners:</h1><p id="caef">Humor (one article)</p><p id="7f49">Personal (three articles)</p><p id="89eb">Combination (three articles)</p><p id="5fb2">Research (one article)</p><p id="f094">I’m not going to post links to these articles since it won’t be beneficial for you to see the unsuccessful articles.</p><p id="7e34">My very lowest earner was an article that I wrote like a research paper with very few personal stories.</p><p id="218f">I didn’t do any others of that style since they didn’t earn any money. I switched to adding research to personal-sounding articles and those did much better (the combination ones).</p><p id="d585">However, the short humor stories seemed to take off the best.

My guess is that the lowest-earning articles ended up that way because I didn’t write eye-catching titles rather than writing subpar content.</p><p id="642a">If you want to read more about which Headlines earned more in my first month on Medium, see the article below.</p><div id="7330" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/new-writers-welcome/my-first-month-on-medium-growing-my-c%CC%B6u%CC%B6l%CC%B6t%CC%B6-%CC%B6f%CC%B6o%CC%B6l%CC%B6l%CC%B6o%CC%B6w%CC%B6i%CC%B6n%CC%B6g%CC%B6-email-list-to-the-incredible-7c26032c75cb"> <div> <div> <h2>My First Month on Medium: Growing My C̶u̶l̶t̶ ̶F̶o̶l̶l̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ Email List to the Incredible…</h2> <div><h3>How to attract superfans from among your regular followers.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*XLi741YXyVT9k4q2)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Which Writing Style Earns More? My First Month on Medium.

It wasn’t what I thought, either!

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All writing styles can do well on medium as long as you make your writing about the reader, not yourself.

Readers (including us!) are selfish. They don’t care about the writer’s life, they care about what they can learn that will benefit their own lives.

So what works?

If you tell a personal story, tell it in a way that will resonate with the reader and show them insight about themselves.

It’s nothing personal. People read for enjoyment or to gain knowledge. They don’t want to hear about your talk with your cousin unless it can teach them something about their own life.

My first month on Medium I practiced writing in four different styles:

  • A personal, friendly, girl-next-door type of writing style
  • The research paper style with cited sources
  • A combination of both (personal, but with some research)
  • Humor

Here were the results!

Top earners:

Humor (three articles)

Combination (two articles)

Research (one article)

Personal (one article)

Lowest earners:

Humor (one article)

Personal (three articles)

Combination (three articles)

Research (one article)

I’m not going to post links to these articles since it won’t be beneficial for you to see the unsuccessful articles.

My very lowest earner was an article that I wrote like a research paper with very few personal stories.

I didn’t do any others of that style since they didn’t earn any money. I switched to adding research to personal-sounding articles and those did much better (the combination ones).

However, the short humor stories seemed to take off the best. My guess is that the lowest-earning articles ended up that way because I didn’t write eye-catching titles rather than writing subpar content.

If you want to read more about which Headlines earned more in my first month on Medium, see the article below.

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